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#81101
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MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/81101/action/topic#81101
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Hmmm ... The file should look the same regardless of the burner, assuming the file is the same source. Is your other version sourced from the XVid Rip instead of direct from DVD? The first time I saw this, I'd downloaded the XVid and reauthored to DVD. There was a LOT of quality loss when using the XVid source (I think the reauthored version of the movie was only about 2GB, which is WAY lower than the source) but I'd be surprised that Rik's video is any different from my own. Curious indeed.

The XVids are a great way to download stuff online just because of how much bandwidth it saves. Quality is about like VHS, which is still okay for most online applications.
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#80915
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Thought on de-SE'ing the DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80915/action/topic#80915
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I'm testing out Womble's MPEG Video Wizard and it seems to be doing the trick fairly well. I'm working on reinserting Shaw at the moment. The software is reading the M2V and appears to be writing its ouput in the same format. The little that I read on this tool did tout it as having M2V editing capabilities.

Are there any captures of the LaptNek sequence out there? I'm even considering and experiment, using the album version of LaptiNek and re-editing the special edition Jedi Rocks video footage over it. However, I'd prefer to just find a good transfer of the movie version of LaptiNek and reinsert it as it was originally presented.

Update:
I screwed around with this for several days, dealing with a strange A/V sync that I couldn't figure out. Finally, I ran the "Fix GOP Errors" utility and it brought the video stream back in sync with the audio streams. From there I used MPEG Video Wizard to do some frame accurate editing, cutting out Hayden and replacing Shaw from the rip that was posted earlier. I output the video stream and it stayed in sync. Because I only used the actual 3 shots of Shaw & company, if there is any color drift, it isn't noticible. The in-between shots of Luke & Leia still come from the DVD and thus look nice, and the "ghost" effect on Anakin, Yoda and Obi-Wan masks any color difference, at least to my eyes.

I didn't pull out "Wesa Free" yet because I didn't want to dork around with the 5.1 audio yet. That said, I may tackle reinserting Lapti-Nek next in a custom fashion. I'm looking into the feasability of using the album version of the song (since it's the only one available) and re-editing the "Jedi Rocks" video around the audio. It may make for a unique way to see the movie. It should be fun, if nothing else. I think it'll be easier to pull and replace an entire segment like this instead of the heavy-sound-fx laden "Wesa Free" ending.
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#80882
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DVD burner Buying Help
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80882/action/topic#80882
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I'd recommend getting an internal IDE drive, then getting an firewire enclosure for it. It would give you the ultimate flexibility to either make it internal or external. Of course, this is all that many of the externals are anyway. You may also want to do the same with a hard drive so you can store your most common burns if you become a seeder of any sort. I've found that my second IDE channel is slow as molasses, so I do all my burns from a firewire-enclosed IDE drive to the internal IDE on my primary channel. I think I've had maybe one buffer underrun, and that was due to taxing my CPU on other processes at the same time I was burning.

I do not have a dual-layer (DL) burner (yet), but I'd recommend one, given that they're pretty inexpensive and the price of DL media is only dropping. In a year you'll be glad you did this.
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#80742
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Got the DVDs Today
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80742/action/topic#80742
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Originally posted by: oojason
What's a THX Optmizer?


There is a special menu on the disc that (among other things) helps you calibrate your TV's settings for color, contrast and sharpness. As I've learned from the boards, this is actually different for every movie, as opposed to making the friggin' DVD adhere to a particular spec (you know, so you'd have to set up your TV once and not have to screw with it every time for every movie).

Anyway, when I ran the optimizer, the matte blocks disappeared on my TV.

But Luke's saber is still green and the title card still recedes to quickly and the music is still reversed in the rear channels, so until these issues get properly, I'm going to remain a noisy cricket in Lucasfilm's ear.
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#80397
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MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80397/action/topic#80397
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If you are using DVD-Lab Pro, there are a bunch of things I've learned that will save you time and effort.

If you drag the disc's VTS_01_1.VOB file into the assets window, it will actually demux the audio, video and subtitles for you. This will take several minutes on a full sized disc. You then drag the demuxed files back into their respective video, audio and subtitle streams in the movie window. Then, drag your new subtitle file into the assets window (lower left corner?) and from there, into the movie window into its own subtitle stream. There is a mechanism somewhere that lets you set the default stream as well. I'm forgetting it at the moment.

Then, under the "project" menu, select "compile disc" to re-author your disc.
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#80012
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Info Wanted: 'Troops' on the Total Movie DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80012/action/topic#80012
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Originally posted by: jwenig
Hi, I'm new here but see many people here have a lot of insite with DVD's... and I am curious if there is a way to take the Total Movie
DVD that has the Troops Movie on it and isolate it by removing everything except the Troops movie, menu, and commentary byr Rubio.


Try ripping the full disc with DVDDecrypter in File mode, then stripping out everything but Troops using DVDFab. www.videohelp.com has great guides for how to do this. Familiarize yourself with this site and it'll become the greatest archiving reference in your arsenal.
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#80011
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Info Wanted: 'Troops' on the Total Movie DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80011/action/topic#80011
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Originally posted by: zion
Ash is sending me a copy of the Total Movie DVD, so I'll probably be making a Troops DVD at some point. I had no idea there were two versions of the theme song. Are both versions present on the DVD?


Sadly, no. The original "Bad Boys" is not on Total Movie, due to licensing rights for the song. They created a spoof, which is actually funnier on paper, called "Bad Droids." It's excecution is just not as good. RowMan's audio just sounded positively awesome at 384 kbits as opposed to the 196 of the Total Movie, not to mention the original song. I lifted that and synched it to the total movie video, and for me it's a perfect way of watching Troops.

If I can only work out my multiple audio thing (or get MBJ to do it for me) then I'm ready to roll with this compilation. Hopefully Rik or somebody can torrent this bad boy and get it out there far and wide. Stay tuned.
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#80005
Topic
MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80005/action/topic#80005
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Good job. Some interesting choices in your version. You restored a few bits of the original dialogue, not unlike me, but in different places. An interesting blend of the original, MF's titles, my titles, and what appears to be some of your own ideas too. That's what I like most of all.

"Come on, I did lead you here." I like the way this particular line was handled. I can't even remember, was this an original line, or was this out of the head of HAL9000? Well handled in either case. This is one difference from both MF's and my versions that I unquestionably like better. I may re-mux the disc and add your subtitles in as an option as well. Might even crib some of your ideas for an update to my version. No time soon, but I'll hang onto this file for the next round.

By the way, there are some upper-case "I"s that got changed to lower case "L"s in my OCR process. Take a critical comb-through as I saw some stragglers in there. Sorry about that.

One more thing, you may want to add in an opening subtitle like in mine, that claims credit for the stream and, if necessary, tells where the other streams are.

Good job!
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#79920
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Info Wanted: 'Troops' on the Total Movie DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/79920/action/topic#79920
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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi


...and where the hell is it already?!?


Still dorking around adding other titlesets in increasingly better resolutions. I'm pretty much ready to go though, but it's definitely a DL disc now. I could compress everything, but that would defeat the purpose.

Sorry if this gets us off topic, but is there a GOOD version of Mather's short films? The official versions are so small that they do look like crap when blown up to DVD resolution. I'm nonetheless adding them to my compilation because they are among the best SW spoofs in existence, but I wish he'd make hi-res versions available officially.
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#79864
Topic
Info Wanted: 'Troops' on the Total Movie DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/79864/action/topic#79864
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I created a version from the total movie video that has three audio tracks (Bad Boys, Bad Droids and the commentary) but haven't gotten the selectable-audio menu figured out. Sending to MBJ soon for his help. I'm trying to create a compilation of Spoofs and Bonus Features from a few sources into one DL disc, with as much first-generation material as I can find. Most of this stuff is OOP so it's taken a bit of work to locate. Troops's "Bad Boys" audio is taken from the ANH compilation RowMan did because the audio quality there just sounds so doggone good.
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#79861
Topic
Info: DanielB - Give capitalism a chance!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/79861/action/topic#79861
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DanielB's views on censorship and capitalism make about as much sense as that person I once sparred with verbally who claimed E.T. should have beaten Gandhi for Best Picture because the latter was just "some dumb movie about a bald man running around in a diaper." That was the previous blue-ribbon-winner for dumb arguments, until now. I'm so done with this guy's trolling. MBJ, stop taking the bait.